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Closing the gap depends on ACCHSs

Sophie Couzos and Dea Delaney Thiele
MJA 2009; 190 (10): 541

To the Editor: The Hon. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, addressed federal Parliament on 26 February 2009 regarding the Closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage: the challenge for Australia report.1 In his speech, he asserted that government strategy to close the gap will focus on the treatment of Indigenous Australians’ illnesses “largely through the mainstream health system, because that is where 70% of Indigenous people are treated”.2

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